Next to Human Action this is probably the most important must for the professional economist. For the educated layman it is the single most important and readable book on the best of economics, unfolding like the best of novels, in the unforgettable story of the life and times of the best of economists.
It must have taken eminent Mises scholar Guido Hülsmann tremendous effort to add such wonderfully refreshing and exhaustive historic perspective to his unsurpassed mastery of theory. The resulting tour de force would have undoubtedly earned the approval of Mises and deserves all our gratitude.
